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Python Pandas SQL Query Never Ending

I recently used Pandas in Python to run an SQL query to create a dataframe which I subsequently write to disk with Pickle. My program has gotten stuck at the pd.read_sql_query(sql) step for over 14 hours now, and I'm not sure what's wrong. I looked…
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Get Drive/Volume Name of temporary storage of Azure Windows VM (even if other drives have pagefile.sys)

I have a Azure Windows VM where I had renamed the temporary drive D: to letter T: following the official documentation. I enabled custom page filing for one of the drives G:. My goal is to identify through code the accurate temporary drive's…
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How can I change the size of pagefile.sys on a Windows servercore Docker container?

I'm building a Docker image based on Windows servercore, but I need to be able to either reboot it after building, to let some changes be applied, or change the size of pagefile.sys without rebooting. The reason for this is that I have some…
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SQL Server Identities and Sequential GUIDS - Will reuse of id value mess up page-files

If I'm using either identities or sequential guids and have them as primary keys and have e.g 100 000 rows stored and then delete one of the rows and insert a new row with the same Id value as the row deleted, then I guess I will mess up the…
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Huge memory allocations cause Windows fully unresponsive

This question is not really related to any specific code or even language. If you allocate huge (exceeding phisical memory) amount of memory on Windows it causes entire operating system to become fully unresponsive - including mouse cursor which…
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Stor port driver and Pagefile.sys

Can the storport driver know if the Read/Write command request which has come to it, is it because of a Paging out request from the physical RAM or Paging in request to the RAM?
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Force Windows to use pagefile

I would like to know if there is a way to instruct Windows to utilize a portion of the pagefile on demand. Like an API or something. I'm currently working on a monitoring system with a function to check the amount of pagefile being used. There are…
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How does the page fault handler know where to get the 4K bytes?

I mean, which file and what's the offset into the file? The page fault handler need to copy 4K bytes from there into the physical RAM. ----------------------EDIT---------------------------- I found out that vm_file in vm_area_struct was just what I…
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Access Denied & Unable to Change Attribute "pagefile.sys"

Using C-Cleaner to Analyze Disk C " Win " it said that Sys File "pagefile.sys" is allocating 3.2 GB atC:\ C-Cleaner pagefile.sys The Problem is When i Open C:\ , I can't see the File with "Show hidden File " When Trying to change Attribute by…
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Can a 64bit vmware host be configured so that a windows server 2003 32bit client can page to ram

I have a legacy windows 2003 R2 32 bit system (client) which has been migrated to a very large vmware 64 bit host (host) with massive ram. Can the host be configured with a disk in ram that can be used as a page file by the client such that paging…
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How does Azure WorkerRole handle its OS page file?

The Azure WorkerRole offers the possibility to create LocalStorage resources. My understanding is that the OS page file is going to use the local storage space. However, as it's possible to create multiple local storage spaces, it's not clear to me…
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Move PageFile.sys To Another Drive

Is it 100% safe to move the pagefile.sys file from c: to another drive on Windows Server 2008? We are getting low on C: space and need to move it off, but not if there is any risk. This is a production web server and (other than a quick reboot)…
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What are the advantages of Linux storing its page file in a separate partition?

Linux stores its page file on a separate partition on the hard drive versus how Windows stores it on the same partitions... what is the advantage and disadvantage to this? My professor mentioned that it's to delete the page file in this case if it…
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Visual C++6 MFC MapViewOfFile returns error code 8

I have a program that is creating a map file, its able to do that call just fine, m_hMap = CreateFileMapping(m_hFile,0,dwProtect,0,m_dwMapSize,NULL);, but when the subsequent function call to MapViewOfFile(m_hMap,dwViewAccess,0,0,0), I get an error…
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Save RAM by forcing a program to use page file

I was running game servers and when they have no players running, I wanted to put the servers' memory into the page file to save RAM. I do know that Windows puts memory that wasn't accessed recently into the page file, however the jobs done with 0…
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